Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1670 - 1673 (2001)

Relativistic Viscous Fluid Description of Microscopic Black Hole Wind

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J. I. Kapusta *
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Received 11 August 2000

Microscopic black holes explode with their temperature varying inversely as their mass. Such explosions would lead to the highest temperatures in the present Universe, all the way to the Planck energy. Whether or not a quasistationary shell of interacting matter undergoing radial hydrodynamic expansion surrounds such black holes is controversial. In this paper relativistic viscous fluid equations are applied to the problem assuming sufficient particle interaction. It is shown that a self-consistent picture emerges of a fluid just marginally kept in local thermal equilibrium; viscosity is a crucial element of the dynamics.


©2001 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v86/p1670
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1670
PACS: 04.70.Dy, 11.10.Wx, 26.50.+x, 95.30.Qd

* Electronic address: kapusta@physics.spa.umn.edu

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